Quick post, tomorrow I have to be up at normal school time (very early.) for the INTERNATIONAL CAMP :D, Kylie and I going to help Ji-yoon with the preparations and stuff. It IS a lot of work for a tiny girl like her after all...

The anime festival yesterday was amazing. I've never really been to one, and it was really as good as they sound. People actually cosplayed, a lot. Despite the 2 hour queue at the beginning, I think that was actually quite a key part of the event... Because by standing out in the open with nothing to do, you start noticing everyone around. And the myriad of colourful costumes created specifically to resemble anime characters. What was cool was that between the group of us (David, Chris, Ji-yoon, Greg, Kylie and myself), we were able to identify easily more than half of what people were cosplaying... Quite satisfying in a sense.

The AMV component of the day was, in my opinion, the best part of the whole day. It consisted of a bunch of user submitted AMVs of various anime's generally with the focus on a specific one in each clip. They each went with a song, and the sync of the chosen scenes with the song was really important too. Honestly, that was so motivating that I pulled out a pen and started taking down anime/song names. That's how motivating it was. And some videos were just flawless. Perfect editing, magnificent scene/song selection just made you want to watch the anime.

After going to the anime fest, I think we all just got hit by anime fever. A new fire and motivation to watch anime burns anew! Terrible timing really, what with exams coming in... NO I refuse to count. But anyway, it's time to start downloading again :D... Btw, I suddenly felt the urge to watch Full Metal Alchemist again, which David has, unfortunately, lost (?). Hope he finds it :(... It IS kind of my bad too though, I have a few of his books I didn't return either >.<

There were also various other stations/activities we attended - drawing contests, previews of new release anime, DDR competitions, manga drawing classes, merchandise stores (of course) etc. All quite entertaining and fun. I even bought a T-shirt, kind of more as a momento than anything else. The tags that they gave us for entry (which we queued for 2 hours to get and even had our names on it) were really well done, and also serve as a sort of momento. Definitely a day that constitutes enough significance to embed itself into my memory for life. Only next time, we decided that we really should cosplay too :P. Too bad I won't be here next year for it... Oh well. Maybe I will.

Kylie took all the photos for us, so as yet I don't have them, but I will try to post them up ASAP. For now, I'm off to sleep and camp tomorrow, back Tuesday night.

Sayonara.